From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: Thomas Hood <jdthood@mail.com>
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
sfr@canb.auug.org.au
Subject: Re: 2.4.18-pre7 slow ... apm problem
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 14:03:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020128140349.22b5e030.skraw@ithnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1012217107.746.5.camel@thanatos>
In-Reply-To: <E16V8oV-0004FV-00@the-village.bc.nu> <1012217107.746.5.camel@thanatos>
On 28 Jan 2002 06:25:05 -0500
Thomas Hood <jdthood@mail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 05:14, Alan Cox wrote:
> > If so then I suspect vmware should be issuing APM cpu busy calls itself
>
> Do you see a difference between VMware and other processes
> in their susceptibility to this problem? If VMware runs
> slowly because it gets scheduled in while the CPU is idle
> and the apm driver fails to busyize the CPU, won't the same
> thing happen for other processes? If so, then our idle
> handling is fundamentally broken. If not, then what makes
> VMware special?
Maybe it's just broken. I have some strange problems with hanging vmware 3
(reproducable) on a SMP machine. On an equal machine vmware 2 runs
flawlessly. There is no APM or the like involved, both under 2.4.18-pre7.
I just don't trust it.
Regards,
Stephan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-28 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-28 0:15 2.4.18-pre7 slow ... apm problem Thomas Hood
2002-01-28 0:32 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-28 2:37 ` Thomas Hood
2002-01-28 10:14 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-28 11:25 ` Thomas Hood
2002-01-28 13:03 ` Stephan von Krawczynski [this message]
2002-01-28 13:18 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-28 16:19 ` Thomas Hood
2002-01-28 3:22 ` Thomas Hood
2002-01-28 20:11 ` Jeff Chua
2002-01-28 20:28 ` Thomas Hood
2002-01-28 22:20 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-29 12:36 ` Jeff Chua
2002-01-30 1:12 ` Thomas Hood
2002-01-30 9:22 ` Jeff Chua
2002-01-28 21:14 ` Thomas Hood
2002-01-28 21:17 ` Jeff Chua
2002-01-28 23:09 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-29 13:01 ` Jeff Chua
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-29 18:53 Petr Vandrovec
2002-01-29 22:47 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-30 0:44 ` Jeff Chua
2002-01-30 5:50 ` Stephen Rothwell
2002-01-30 9:27 ` Jeff Chua
2002-02-01 13:20 ` Jeff Chua
2002-01-28 23:22 Petr Vandrovec
2002-01-27 10:08 Jeff Chua
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